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Re: [PATCH 4/4] create_symref: use existing ref-lock code

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 29, 2015, 05:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20151229054116.GA14551@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20151229050230.GA13253@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:02:30AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> Given that using symlinks is only
> triggered by an undocumented (!) option that presumably very few people
> use, I'm inclined to leave it as-is.

Sorry, I am wrong here. We do document core.preferSymlinkRefs. I missed it because my grep was case-sensitive. :-/

-Peff
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Message 12 of 25 in “improve symbolic-ref robustness”
  1. 0/4 improve symbolic-ref robustnessJeff King, Dec 20, 2015
  2. 1/4 symbolic-ref: propagate error code from create_symref()Jeff King, Dec 20, 2015
  3. 2/4 t1401: test reflog creation for git-symbolic-refJeff King, Dec 20, 2015
  4. 3/4 create_symref: modernize variable namesJeff King, Dec 20, 2015
  5. Michael HaggertyDec 28, 2015
  6. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  7. 4/4 create_symref: use existing ref-lock codeJeff King, Dec 20, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2015
  9. Jeff KingDec 22, 2015
  10. Michael HaggertyDec 28, 2015
  11. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  12. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  13. 0/3 improve symbolic-ref robustnessJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  14. 1/3 create_symref: modernize variable namesJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  15. 2/3 create_symref: use existing ref-lock codeJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  16. 3/3 create_symref: write reflog while holding lockJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  17. 4/3 create_symref: drop support for writing symbolic linksJeff King, Dec 29, 2015
  18. Jeff KingDec 29, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 29, 2015
  20. Jeff KingDec 30, 2015
  21. Jeff KingDec 30, 2015
  22. Michael HaggertyDec 29, 2015
  23. Junio C HamanoDec 29, 2015
  24. Junio C HamanoDec 29, 2015
  25. Jeff KingDec 30, 2015

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